Do SpaceX Flight Attendants Massage Passengers?

“According to the declaration, the attendant confided to the friend that after taking the flight attendant job, she was encouraged to get licensed as a masseuse so that she could give Musk massages”

A lot of people are sharing an Insider news story about a flight attendant who reportedly received a $250,000 settlement in a sexual misconduct case against Elon Musk over an incident that happened in 2016. I can’t get past the line above.

Before we go any further, I want to make it clear that when it comes to the Elon Musk flight attendant case, all I’m focused on is the massage. This isn’t about politics or free speech or a smear campaign or the “kindness party” or anything else. It’s about flight attendants massaging passengers. In this story that passenger may or may not have been Elon Musk.

As a flight attendant for over 20 years, I can say that I’ve never met a flight attendant who wanted to give massages to passengers on flights. Oh sure, there may be one or two passengers that might be fun to massage, but for the most part all we want to do is pick up your trash and be done with the service. Our layovers are short and we’re tired. We barely have time to eat, sleep, and eat on a domestic 8–10 hour layover. At least that’s how it is for commercial airlines.